While watching the awesome and visually splendid Olympics opening cermony, as the Indian contingent of athletes passed by, my sister casually remarked that it was ironic that on the day of the Olympics, the President of the country was at the convocation ceremony in IIT Bombay, whilst the President of the ruling coalition government was instead ( Read more... )

I voted today. For the second time in my life, and the first time as a tax payer. The last time I voted, I was a final year student in engineering college ( Read more... )

I received about four SMSes on my mobile, two from 'CONGRESS' and 'JDS' (names of the senders) respectively, imploring me to vote for the candidates they fielded in a few constituencies in South Bangalore, and this form of campaigning had me quite incensed for about twenty seconds until I deleted that message ( Read more... )

On election day, our family has this habit of waking up early in order to go vote en masse at the polling booth. It is probably due to the fact that all the four voting members of our family have consecutive serial numbers in the voters' list and we are quite concerned about making life easy for those election officials, who'd have quite a task of ( Read more... )

As a kid, when I saw my folks return from the polling booth after voting, the indelible ink stain on their left index finger seemed to me an important indication of their having exercised their fundamental right. This was around the time we had the study of our fundamental rights and duties as part of the curriculum in Civics ( Read more... )

With the state assembly elections coming up, a friend of mine called me up frantically and said that there will be no alcohol available on the 8th, 9th and 10th of this month, as alcohol is used as the standard means of buying people's votes ( Read more... )

Reading this article in the Hindu about the transfer of BJP MLA Anil Lad to the Congress sort of prompted me to think of how the media highlights the manner in which politicians move across parties in our honourable multi-party system in a manner similar to the way sports players get transferred across clubs, and the hue and cry that it raises in ( Read more... )

I had previously posted about how I was in total agreement with how trivialization was becoming a leitmotif for the Indian mainstream television media and how The Hindu was one of the sole survivors of the en masse dumbing down that our media has subjected itself to, to cater to the moronic idiots whose viewpoints on the world seem to be myopic ( Read more... )

Turns out that we, the people have to witness another political debacle, in the spirit of backstabbing and cheating that goes on amongst political parties in the name of coalition politics ( Read more... )

June 5th 2007 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Six Day War of 1967, during which Israel successfully fought against Egypt, Jordan and Syria in tandem and managed to double its territory in a short span of less than a week ( Read more... )